This document summarizes the telome theory of plant evolution proposed by W. Zimmerman in 1930. The telome theory describes how early vascular land plants like Rhynia evolved from aquatic plants. It explains key evolutionary processes like overtopping, rearrangement, plantation, reduction, and curvation that led to the development of true leaves, stems, roots, and complex vascular systems in land plants from undifferentiated telome branches in early plants. While the telome theory describes the origin and structure of land plant sporophytes, it has some limitations in explaining the arrangement of sporangia and origin of all leaf-like structures.